One of your best written and most captivating stories.

Now, I shall invoke some humor, though very spiritual that it is, when one can look beneath the waves, as you can. One of my favorite little seen movies is The Gumball Rally. I have always love this scene: https://youtu.be/AjGXn249Fc0

Yes, that is a very young Raul Julia playing the Italian race car driver as he is about to commence a coast to coast and very illegal race.

The entire movie is a fun watch.